6-foot-7 quarterback turned boxer Dominic Breazeale going to Olympics

While everyone waits to see what becomes of late-starters Seth Mitchell and Deontay Wilder, you might want to keep an eye on "the project from Alhambra" -- Dominic Breazeale.

Apparently there's an incredibly rich former television producer that is going around the USA looking for former football and basketball players and signing them up to box full time in a very fancy facility in LA.

Dominic Breazeale, former quarterback for Northern Colorado, has moved through the program, had success in the US amateur ranks, went to Brazil for the Olympic qualifying event and -- he got silver! He qualified for the olympics. You thought Seth Mitchell was green? You thought Deontay Wilder was raw and inexperienced?

Wait until you see this guy! Look for him on the winner's podium in London Olympics, looking all raw and green and novice-like, sporting an olympic sized grin.

some more background:

[url]http://www.boxingnews24.com/2012/05/dominic-breazeale-competing-in-his-first-ever-international-tournament-punches-his-olympic-ticket-by-defeating-the-top-ranked-boxers-from-north-and-south-america-at-the-2012-americas-olympic-qualify/[/url]

[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/sports/olympics/london-olympics-a-bid-to-revitalize-boxing.html?pagewanted=all[/url]

[url]http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/24/sports/la-sp-boxing-carson-20120425[/url]

 

I didn't say that.

But you're right, he is big.

 

The interesting bit about this is that tis guy came through a program which seeks to rehabilitate the American heavyweight and has BIG money behind it.

And it worked well enough to get Breazeale to the olympics.